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Surprise Me: A Novel
Deena Goldstone · Nan. A. Talese/Doubleday Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
Surprise Me, a debut novel, is an unconventional love story about two writers who see more in each other than they see in themselves, and how that faith transforms them.The fragile dream of becoming a writer takes hold during Isabelle Rothman's senior year of college. Against all advice,... |
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Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 179 Format: Print book |
A Best Book of the Year The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Denver PostIn the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,... |
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Break in Case of Emergency: A novel
Jessica Winter · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
A smart, irreverent, blistering workplace satire set in the world of a nonprofit feminist startup, for fans of Then We Came to the End and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. When Jen takes a poorly defined job at a start-up chaired by Leora Infinitis--a wealthy sit-com actress and celebrity... |
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The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Louise Penny · St Martin'S Press Pages: 448 Format: Print book |
Three Pines is a village just above the U.S. border where everybody knows everything about each other -- until now.Everybody in Three Pines is shocked when their favorite local bistro becomes the scene of a devastating crime. A stranger's corpse has turned up there, and Chief Inspector... |
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Carousel Court: A Novel
Joe McGinniss · Simon & Schuster Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
Following the breakout success of his "searing" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel The Delivery Man, Joe McGinniss Jr. returns with Carousel Court: a bold, original, and exhilarating novel of marriage as blood sport that reads like Revolutionary Road for the era of The Unwinding.Nick... |
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The Jealous Kind: A Novel
James Lee Burke · Simon & Schuster Pages: 400 Format: Print book |
From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke - an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages.On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath... |
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My Name Is Leon
Kit De Waal · Simon and Schuster Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
For fans of The Language of Flowers, a sparkling, big-hearted, page-turning debut set in the 1970s about a young black boy's quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care.Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful,... |
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The Golden Age
Joan London · Europa Editions Pages: 256 Format: Print book |
Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Award for FictionJoan London, author of Gilgamesh, gives her readers an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience, and love with The Golden Age. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold's family, Hungarian jews, escape... |
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